Ultrafast electron diffraction: Visualizing dynamic states of matter

D Filippetto, P Musumeci, RK Li, BJ Siwick… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
Since the discovery of electron-wave duality, electron scattering instrumentation has
developed into a powerful array of techniques for revealing the atomic structure of matter …

Time-resolved transmission electron microscopy for nanoscale chemical dynamics

FM Alcorn, PK Jain, RM van der Veen - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The ability of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to image a structure ranging from
millimetres to Ångströms has made it an indispensable component of the toolkit of modern …

[HTML][HTML] Relativistic ultrafast electron diffraction at high repetition rates

KM Siddiqui, DB Durham, F Cropp, F Ji… - Structural …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The ability to resolve the dynamics of matter on its native temporal and spatial scales
constitutes a key challenge and convergent theme across chemistry, biology, and materials …

[HTML][HTML] Low repetition-rate, high-resolution femtosecond transmission electron microscopy

DJ Flannigan, WA Curtis, EJ VandenBussche… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The spatial and energy resolutions of state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopes
(TEMs) have surpassed 50 pm and 5 meV. However, with respect to the time domain, even …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of a time-resolved electron microscope with a Schottky field emission gun

PK Olshin, M Drabbels, UJ Lorenz - Structural Dynamics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The rapid growth of the field of time-resolved and ultrafast electron microscopy has been
accompanied by the active development of new instrumentation. Recently, time-resolved …

Stroboscopic ultrafast imaging using RF strip-lines in a commercial transmission electron microscope

SA Reisbick, MG Han, C Liu, Y Zhao, E Montgomery… - Ultramicroscopy, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM), specifically stroboscopic imaging,
has brought the study of structural dynamics to a new level by overcoming the spatial …

Toward Å–fs–meV resolution in electron microscopy: systematic simulation of the temporal spread of single-electron packets

WA Curtis, DJ Flannigan - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Though efforts to improve the temporal resolution of transmission electron microscopes
(TEMs) have waxed and waned for decades, with relatively recent advances routinely …

Direct visualization of electromagnetic wave dynamics by laser-free ultrafast electron microscopy

X Fu, E Wang, Y Zhao, A Liu, E Montgomery… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Integrating femtosecond lasers with electron microscopies has enabled direct imaging of
transient structures and morphologies of materials in real time and space. Here, we report …

Correlated spin-wave generation and domain-wall oscillation in a topologically textured magnetic film

C Liu, F Ai, S Reisbick, A Zong, A Pofelski, MG Han… - Nature Materials, 2025 - nature.com
Spin waves, or magnons, are essential for next-generation energy-efficient spintronics and
magnonics. Yet, visualizing spin-wave dynamics at nanoscale and microwave frequencies …

Modern approaches to improving phase contrast electron microscopy

JJ Axelrod, JT Zhang, PN Petrov, RM Glaeser… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Although defocus can be used to generate partial phase contrast in transmission electron
microscope images, cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can be further improved by the …